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Havoc ! Chaos ! Destruction ! Can IT Be Stopped ? Background Known Relatives: A similar creature ravaged the coastal towns of Denmark and Holland in the 13th Century. Group Affiliation: None. Base Of Operations: Mindanao Deep, hunting along the western...

About two years ago I noticed a gaming buddy of mine had Barbarella in VHS format in his collection. I began to believe that I had missed out on a gamer classic…I bought the movie and found it is much different than what I expected. Still here she is… with S P O I L E R S, I...

Context The Wild World of Batwoman (a.k.a. She Was A Hippie Vampire or Wild Wild World of Batwoman) is a catastrophically bad 1966 film. By far its greatest accomplishment is to have survived the obvious copyright infringement trial. Somehow. This writeup contains some S P O I L E R S...

The film’s plot came from a magazine, the Saturday Evening Post, a story written by Ray Bradbury called The Foghorn. It may be worth noting that the Beast’s destruction of the lighthouse is the only portion derived from Ray’s short story. He told an amusing anecdote about...

But I appreciate the “Golden Age” take I had never seen before. In reading background, it was generally considered to be the best movie serial ever made except for the Flash Gordon serials. The sequences of Cap in flight were amazing considering the era and the budget. The...

Chris Adams is the leader of said Seven. The great Yul Brynner played him early on, and the role was then handed over to George Kennedy, perhaps known best as Dallas’ Carter McKay. Later on it was van Cleef, who was cool as usual. Background Real Name: Chris Larabee Adams. Known...

Context The creature was first seen in one of the classic 1950s Universal monster movies – in 1954, specifically. It had two sequels before the decade was over. This monster (also called the “Gill-Man”) is a minor horror icon, and thus often comes to mind when making...

Context I recently watched the animated film Monsters vs. Aliens and thought it would be cool to writeup the original monsters. The Fly was a 1958 horror movie, which inspired a number of (far gorier) sequels and remakes over the years. It’s certainly one of the 1950s “atomic...

“Screaming down from the stratosphere. Fantastic flying monster… 17 million years old… bigger than a battleship… faster than a jet plane… making war on all mankind… PANIC from Broadway to Bombay ! Atom Age science helpless against Ice Age...

Powers and Abilities The Golem is a mystically-animated clay statue. As one might imagine, it is incredibly strong and very hard to damage in any meaningful way. History On a night in 1580, among the stars and mysteries of the sky, seated in his tower observatory, the learned alchemist Rabbi...